Got help with rearranging their game with us because of the Euro game so they then fielded a weakened team anyway and are now losing
They drew 2-2 with some shit cunts who were reduced to 10 men...
Got help with rearranging their game with us because of the Euro game so they then fielded a weakened team anyway and are now losing
Italian Super Cup, being played in Saudi Arabia and one of the teams sponsors is DRC. Bonkers
Player names on the shirts in Arabic. Hardly a fan of either club in site.
Almost as weird as me arsing by myself. Heh
Italian Super Cup, being played in Saudi Arabia and one of the teams sponsors is DRC. Bonkers
Heh. Hojland with a brace.
No mention of Visit Rwanda but no doubt, given the tensions between DRC and Tawanda, this is a bit of political soft power play.
-T
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No mention of Visit Rwanda but no doubt, given the tensions between DRC and Tawanda, this is a bit of political soft power play.
Milan are sponsored by DRC- as in Democratic Republic of Congo?
Milan are sponsored by DRC- as in Democratic Republic of Congo?
it is still around!
I live slightly north of the big city but my wife and I love dim sum and seek it out everywhere we go
If you are ever in NYC I have a place in Flushing queens that is amazing
My son and I will be in the City later this month for a couple days, but we will be in the Village and likely will stay in Manhattan. We like to search for the best NYC style pizza joints when we are in town. John's of Bleecker St. is currently our all-time fave, but we'll try some other ones this time. Though a late brunch of dim sum in Chinatown sounds like a great idea!
Didn't the women's team do well last night? Having Kim Little in midfield makes a lot of difference. She's not ready to do the full 90 minutes yet, so when she came off, the defence was changed as wel...
" need to work out who/how to succeed her."
that's been simmering on the backburner for a few seasons now. She's not going to last forever. It will become more and more pressing as time goes on.
Basically saying they wanted away from the rain. Anything but rain.
Id like a wee visit to Canada myself.
If you like snow, ha ha. It hasn't been a super snowy winter so far but we got blizzarded for a couple hours yesterday. Not a lot of snow in it but the wind created pretty good drifts. We had a Subaru get stuck in one in the parking lot... a Subaru!!
No need to apologise for not telling us what James was up to in Dublin. If you had, you would have had to kill us all.
but the only way to do that would be via the blog... hmm, there's a potential Black Mirror episode in there somewhere
It was black mirror and that was a nightmare episode
to be honest there are a fair few nightmare episodes in that show.
Arse!
well in, grumpy!
I'm betting everything on rod scoring the winner.
Given Crystal Palace's schedule, somewhere there's a PalaceBlog writing the exact same article inverted.
It feels like déjà vu every season this idea that if you go out of one of the little cups "you're not trying hard enough" rather than you just lost. Why don't we say that we refused to win the league ...
...and yes we are still top, but at least our recent defeat to Villa has brought some reality that, as Yankee Gooner just said online, we're not a particularly good attacking side, our whole persona is based on being the best defenders.
“For a club that has not won any silverware since 2020, we can hardly behave like one of the four trophies on offer in a season is beneath us”
Well said. It feels like déjà vu every season. We are a...
It feels like déjà vu every season this idea that if you go out of one of the little cups "you're not trying hard enough" rather than you just lost. Why don't we say that we refused to win the league for the past three season because we didn't concentrate on it enough?
It's an entirely circular, open-ended argument and I'm tired of listening to it which is why I end up saying I don't give a shit about the Carabao Cup or the FA Cup Not because it wouldn't be nice to win it, but because every year not winning it is used as some weird excuse as to why we don't win the league.
We need to win the league and, after all that's been spent and all the hype when we were top, to now falter in the league would be the worst for us.
Sure, but let's win the FA Cup and Carabao Cup, but remember we have to concentrate very, very hard or it won't happen 🤣
Is that where you are mark? Years ago I had best dumplings in my life - soup dumplings at Joe’s Shanghai in Chinatown. Not sure if it is still around.
it is still around!
I live slightly north of the big city but my wife and I love dim sum and seek it out everywhere we go
If you are ever in NYC I have a place in Flushing queens that is amazing
Now I want dumplings and per google they just opened in Manhattan
Is that where you are mark? Years ago I had best dumplings in my life - soup dumplings at Joe’s Shanghai in Chinatown. Not sure if it is still around.
Just reminded me of that episode (of Black Mirror I think?) with the people who have not paid the ad-free upgraded supscription to their life-saving brain implant (or something, I don't recall precise...
It was black mirror and that was a nightmare episode
Get yerselves to Din Tai Fung for some amazing dumplings
Now I want dumplings and per google they just opened in Manhattan
“For a club that has not won any silverware since 2020, we can hardly behave like one of the four trophies on offer in a season is beneath us”
Well said. It feels like déjà vu every season. We are at that point in the season where it’s ok to lose in the carabao and FA cup as we are going for the league.
Wait, Max Dowman is out for weeks as well?
Sorry but how dare you bring data into this discussion of learned gentlemen- and Mrs.?
Yeah, only data which confirms there's nothing to worry about. How about this data, which is the up-to-date one?
https://tinyurl.com/cks9aukbThis isn't the table that's been doing the rounds. There's a table where Arsenal are top with 100 injuries (not sure how far back it goes) and West Ham are bottom. It's scary how many injuries we've had. Why are there these other stats trying to downplay what seems obvious to most of us?
Sorry but how dare you bring data into this discussion of learned gentlemen- and Mrs.?
Arse. WiGG.
Sorry about the prized teapot Mrs. Perhaps it was a poltergeist who hates teapots?
Maybe it's our style of football that is leading to these injuries. Of all the pressing, running teams, we probably press and run the most. Our players seem to do all the work, the ball doesn't move a...
oh hang on, that's when the second leg semi could be, gotcha!
Haha Brighton at home you madman ;p
(Zubi born 2/2/99)
Arse.
Well try being in Ireland. It either rains or it rains. Sometimes it rains. Then it rains.
Pocket full of rainbows.
Lucky..it was 42' here today and currently 32' at 1030 pm
Maybe it's our style of football that is leading to these injuries. Of all the pressing, running teams, we probably press and run the most. Our players seem to do all the work, the ball doesn't move about as much as proper tiki-taka passing teams. I mentioned that the first half of the Bayern game, though they never got close to our box, the way they passed it around was (for me) satisfying to watch. The ball was doing all the work. But our players do all the work and that workload keeps getting bigger. I want is to win any way we can, but I have to accept that our style is high intensity on the players, hence these record breaking injuries. A tough semi-final against cloggers Chelsea isn't what the doctor ordered, but many fans are desperate for a cup, any cup, that even with a first team fully fit, if we were to lose, there would be fans saying we "didn't take the cup 'seriously' enough". We just need to win it, and maybe that will give us a boost to go on and win a bigger trophy later in the year, though I think that narrative is a bit stale. We should be winning the league, failing to do that this season will not be compensated by a Carling Cup win... imo!
i wonder if mikel and the squad are looking at this differently....
i'm sure Nwaneri, & Noorgard MLS, Jesus, and hopefully Havertz, are looking forward to some minutes....
Are injury problems are more to do with the positional clustering than numbers....but, in theory, Big Gabs & Mos will be back by the new year.....
oh no YOUR birthday, you didn't say it was the same as his, brain absolutely not functioning today.
*gets coat and travels/hides far away*
Actually, scrap that: 'week commencing' and it's not going to be on a Monday so better luck in 2027. Maybe.
oh hang on, that's when the second leg semi could be, gotcha!
I hope he scores on my birthday too so I can sing his song ;p
*googles*
But he can't do next year though.
I hope he scores on my birthday too so I can sing his song ;p
Well in grumpy
Well congested Blogs
"Dear Zubi please sort weather" Thanks
heh!
Well in grumpy
Well congested Blogs
"Dear Zubi please sort weather" Thanks
Didn't the women's team do well last night? Having Kim Little in midfield makes a lot of difference. She's not ready to do the full 90 minutes yet, so when she came off, the defence was changed as wel...
Yes they done great. Good to see the women's team playing well again and back to winning ways.
Basically saying they wanted away from the rain. Anything but rain.
Id like a wee visit to Canada myself.
I got the impression that they wanted rain AND cold. At least that's how Billy Connolly put it! May not have been geographically accurate though.
Didn't the women's team do well last night? Having Kim Little in midfield makes a lot of difference. She's not ready to do the full 90 minutes yet, so when she came off, the defence was changed as well to bring on Leah Williamson to see the game out. Leah's passing out from the back means that we can get away with the drop-off in midfield. The problem is that Kim is, I think, 36, and can't go on forever, but we need to work out who/how to succeed her.
Reminds me of a Billy Connolly story about the Scots. There we were, he said, in Ireland but not happy with the weather. It never stopped raining, but it wasn't cold enough. So we migrated to Scotland...
Basically saying they wanted away from the rain. Anything but rain.
Id like a wee visit to Canada myself.
No need to apologise for not telling us what James was up to in Dublin. If you had, you would have had to kill us all.
Arse.
Well try being in Ireland. It either rains or it rains. Sometimes it rains. Then it rains.
Pocket full of rainbows.
Reminds me of a Billy Connolly story about the Scots. There we were, he said, in Ireland but not happy with the weather. It never stopped raining, but it wasn't cold enough. So we migrated to Scotland where it also rained all the time but was very cold as well. He develops the story by asking where could they go which was even colder, which explains why so many of them ended up in Canada. Obviously his actual patter is funnier than my recollection of it
Here for a week celebrating a notable birthday for Mrs Bass
Well have a completely whizzo time and please remain doom free.*woowaves* in that sort of direction.
Will try and make a pot of restorative tea. RIP little grey teapot
The teapot was cursed - the curse is lifted. Only winners from now on Missus!
There’s room too for Mikel to start as CM on Tuesday.
I don’t see the doom over the cup match. It’s a free hit.
Win - we get to make amends for last year’s SF embarrassment. (Yeah, I know it’s the chavs not the barcodes).
Lose - and we get a couple of midweeks of rest and recovery, and maybe, just maybe a few fitter legs back for the hard push.
Whoever wins on Tuesday it will still mean four teams who are playing in Europe are in the semi (four from the CL, if we win). If that’s not enough justification to scrap the 2-leg semi, then nothing will be.
Priority tho is we must relight the magic and win on Saturday v Everton. 115 will beat the Hammers so we will start the match in 2nd place. Even a draw for us won’t be good enough as they’re ahead on GD.
Time to show them, we really are up for it this season.
Just reminded me of that episode (of Black Mirror I think?) with the people who have not paid the ad-free upgraded supscription to their life-saving brain implant (or something, I don't recall precise...
Ah yes! Great episode.
...which in turns brings me back to being more or less stuck at home for weeks on end earlier this year.
I do enjoy a good dumpling.
Currently enjoying an incredibly hot masala Chai tea. Anyone want the skin of the milk?
Just reminded me of that episode (of Black Mirror I think?) with the people who have not paid the ad-free upgraded supscription to their life-saving brain implant (or something, I don't recall precisely) suddenly reciting adverts in the middle of doing stuff.
Advertisings on arseblog? What next? :-D
;)
Get yerselves to Din Tai Fung for some amazing dumplings
Advertisings on arseblog? What next? :-D
I saw that tickets are available for the Palace game. Tuesday night, two days before Christmas clearly not firing up enthusiasm
Get yerselves to Din Tai Fung for some amazing dumplings
Oh no, the little grey teapot that mysteriously landed on the kitchen floor this morning whilst I was sleeping and broke was a brand called FOR LIFE. Is this a doomy message.
What are you doing there ? En route to Oz ?
Here for a week celebrating a notable birthday for Mrs Bass
A total of 30 minutes of sunshine thus far in December here in Stockholm. I am not pleased.
Arse.
Well try being in Ireland. It either rains or it rains. Sometimes it rains. Then it rains.
Pocket full of rainbows.
and increase the doom.
See, the symmetry is still there.
Never ending this symmetry.
Will try and make a pot of restorative tea. RIP little grey teapot
And it might lower the mood
and increase the doom.
See, the symmetry is still there.
And it might lower the mood
Ecuadorian international footballer murdered by bullets.
No, not Hincapié, but a reminder there's another way to lose players, don't think we've had that yet to worsen the defensive crisis.
Shhhhhh, don't give anyone ideas.
Ecuadorian international footballer murdered by bullets.
No, not Hincapié, but a reminder there's another way to lose players, don't think we've had that yet to worsen the defensive crisis.
*mwahves* must send out some cards, battling all sorts of foes at the moment.Not the least of which is inertia. I have the cards and the stamps....I daren't get too whiney or people will completely discount me and put me in a home.
Have only just noticed, being slow on the uptake that DOOM is MOOD backwards,
heh
*mwahves*
Have only just noticed, being slow on the uptake that DOOM is MOOD backwards,
full of old favourites - inmate carbon rod and cromulent - soothing - happier and very probably sunnier times.
It's fucking hot in Singapore. Sweating my bollocks off.
What are you doing there ? En route to Oz ?
I saw that tickets are available for the Palace game. Tuesday night, two days before Christmas clearly not firing up enthusiasm
Come on, there is still (very very minimal, not backed by the story so far) hope.
A real aficionado
Come on, there is still (very very minimal, not backed by the story so far) hope.
No, no there isn't.
A total of 30 minutes of sunshine thus far in December here in Stockholm. I am not pleased.
It's fucking hot in Singapore. Sweating my bollocks off.
well in gg, there's a lotto this grumpiness about at the moment it seems.
Jeez i checked this for typos and found one but missed the LOTTO. Bloody predictive text.
A total of 30 minutes of sunshine thus far in December here in Stockholm. I am not pleased.
I can imagine - have you got any of those lamp bulbs that stop you being SAD ?
well in gg, there's a lotto this grumpiness about at the moment it seems.
Come on, there is still (very very minimal, not backed by the story so far) hope.
A total of 30 minutes of sunshine thus far in December here in Stockholm. I am not pleased.
You're in Stockholm, what did you expect?
I saw the biggest snowflakes* I have ever seen in my life in December 2002 there.
*it's 2025 so I might need to specify I do not mean people moaning about the grey weather, but actual, real snowflakes made of snow/water.
Jeez, reading that back sounds so......odd.
Need a good wipe?
Is anyone else finding the arses don't refresh?
Jeez, reading that back sounds so......odd.
Is anyone else finding the arses don't refresh?
Not as bad as the Ashes being over after less than 10 days of cricket...
It's been abject
A total of 30 minutes of sunshine thus far in December here in Stockholm. I am not pleased.
Not as bad as the Ashes being over after less than 10 days of cricket...
Arse. Weill in grumpy
I'd rather we play second string midfield and forwards and academy defence (as second string is needed in first team) in this competition. Winning this cup usually causes performance degradation in league/other cups (unless it is C115).
Arse. Well in grumpy_git.
Morning all.
I'm not wiling to bin off any competition. Winning is a habit.
A total of 30 minutes of sunshine thus far in December here in Stockholm. I am not pleased.